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  2. Karma in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    In his commentary on Chapter 2 of the Brahma Sutras, Sivananda further notes that the position of God with respect to karma can be explained through the analogy of rain. Although rain can be said to bring about the growth of rice, barley and other plants, the differences in various species is due to the diverse potentialities lying hidden in ...

  3. Balbharati - Wikipedia

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    Balbharati (The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.. Balbharati is publishing integrated textbooks for Class I to Class VII.In this type of textbook all subjects are included in one book and that book is splitted into 4 parts according to unit tests.This decision was taken from the academic year 2023-24 to reduce load ...

  4. Marriage in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    The marriage of Dushyanta and Shakuntala was a historically celebrated example of this class of marriage. It is generally considered to be permissible to the members of the Kshatriya varna , and only the Vaishya and the Shudra varnas according to Smriti texts, [27] though it has grown increasingly common in the present-day due to the practice ...

  5. Kalpa Sūtra - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Kalpa Sūtra ( Sanskrit: कल्पसूत्र) is a Jain text containing the biographies of the Jain Tirthankaras, notably Parshvanatha and Mahavira. [1] Traditionally ascribed to Bhadrabahu, which would place it in the 4th century BCE, [2] it was probably put in writing 980 or 993 years after the Nirvana ( Moksha) of Mahavira.

  6. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of L1 self-reported speakers of Hindi in India as per the 2011 Census. Modern Standard Hindi, [a] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.

  7. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    Textbook. A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions. Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools.

  8. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu. v. t. e. Hindi literature ( Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa like Awadhi, and Marwari languages. Hindi literature is composed in three broad ...

  9. Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    An example of this usage is the 1687 book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. This book referred to natural philosophy in its title, but it is today considered a book of physics. The meaning of philosophy changed toward the end of the modern period when it acquired the more narrow meaning common today. In this new ...